China's first national laboratory for brain-like artificial intelligence (AI) technology was inaugurated Saturday in Hefei, capital of East China's Anhui province, to pool the country's top research talent and boost the technology.

Using fruit flies, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified a specific and very small set of brain cells—dubbed dopamine wedge neurons—responsible for driving the insects' food preferences toward what they need, rather than what they like.

To explore these possibilities, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just awarded more than an estimated US$50 million in funding to eight teams looking into how electrical stimulation of the nervous system can help facilitate learning.

In an interview with the publication of OOOOM, the famous surgeon Sergio Canavero talked about the details of the operation on a human head transplantation, which he and his Chinese counterpart Xiaopeng Wren are going to hold in December.
There are plans to "revitalize" the dead people - participants in the Alcor project to freeze bodies after death. Extract the body, cooled in the cryogenic chamber, separate the head and transplant it to the donor body. Kanavero plans already by 2018...

Scientists have found more new evidence that Parkinson's could start in the gut before spreading to the brain, observing lower rates of the disease in patients who had undergone a procedure called a truncal vagotomy.